A Group of Unpublished Letters by Henry S. Salt to Joseph Ishill

A Group of Unpublished Letters by Henry S. Salt to Joseph Ishill

Henry S. Salt, Henry W. Nevinson (Preface)

  • Publisher: Oriole Press, Berkeley Heights, New Jersey
  • Published: 1942
  • Length: 54
  • Format: Hardback

Summary

Published and printed privately by The Origin Press. This group of 41 unpublished letters by Henry S. Salt is printed in a limited edition (50 copies).

Joseph Ishill was an anarchist, a printer and founder of the Oriole Press. Born in Rumania in 1888, he emigrated to the United States as a teenager and settled in New York City. As an anarchist, he joined the Ferrer Colony in Stelton, New Jersey in 1915. He began publishing in 1916.

He founded the Oriole Press, for which he served as publisher, editor, printer, typographer, pressman, proofreader, and in some cases bookbinder. Throughout his career, he published a wide variety of materials, including works by anarchists and radicals such as Emma Goldman, Peter Kropotkin, and Havelock Ellis. Ishill died in 1966.

Content

  • A Humane Crank. By Henry W. Nevinson
  • A Few Introductory Notes. By Joseph Ishill
  • A Group of Unpublished Letters. By H. S. Salt
  • Index
  • A Partial Bibliography